I'm pretty sure OP already did that, since they referred to the "previous dentist" doing the inferior work.

I know, I misread the fml. I even buried myself for such a stupid comment.

Read carefully. It clearly says her previous dentist did such a bad job and her new dentist told her she needs surgery.

They've established that, 7. I understand you guys commented at the same time, but you had 2 minutes to edit your comment, which would've helped you avoid this situation.

Sad bro

It's worrying how many there are out there that are incompetent BUT glad that OP found one that seems to know what they're doing!

My mom told me a dentist horror story. Apparently he would claim her brothers had a cavity and then literally DRILL one in their tooth and proceed to fill it and charge them. He finally got arrested, apparently he was a wanted con artist haha.

But saw movies have to do with punishing people... Drilling and filling holes and making people pay more money sounds much better than killing a nice stranger and cutting into your own eye... Just saying.

You must give yourself a filling. Once they're in the right place, the door will unlock. I will be watching. No novacaine.

Thanks guys, now I don't know if I'll ever be able to get my teeth cleaned again.

My dentist repeats everything he says :D does your dentist do that to ?

#76 No and that would be so annoying.

When I was a little kid, the dentist we went to would always say my teeth looked great with no problems, well, when we changed dentists, it turned out that I had 4 back teeth that were rotten, and I had to have them pulled out!

How the **** do you know if they are doing it right or not?! Did u go to dental school? Stop blaming dentists for your ignorance

Yeah next time I see you I'm gonna rip out all your teeth ! And ya I read FMLs (for Losers that don't understand me I'm her old denist)

Then you should get a new dentist

...*sigh*...

Well, at least you will admit it to yourself.

I find it crazy that most Americans seem to have "laughing gas" with their dental treatment-here we do it in the dental hospital and out in practice it's only dentists who've done a special course that can give it and only for selective cases- extreme fear etc

Yeah, we just get an injection straight to the gums :/ it numbs whichever part of the mouth we need surgery on. We're very much wide awake the whole time. I'd like to be knocked out though!

I don't even have an injection at the dentist. I had one for when I had teeth taken out for my braces and it hadnt kicked in within the 20 seconds my dentist started yanking out my teeth. Wasn't too bad, I've felt worse.

Most American dentists don't use anything other than a local anaesthetic for root canals unless the patient demands, and is willing to pay for, more. It's a fairly routine procedure.

The only procedure I think you get knocked out completely for is when you get your wisdom teeth pulled, other than that they just numb your gums with a needle.

Alternatively, you have the option of brushing your teeth with a bottle of Jack.

Some teeth decay from being forced into each other. That's why I HAVE to get my wisdom teeth out. It's not always about bad hygiene.

Citymayer- no- this doesn't happen at all- if they are close they are harder to clean and decay that way- they don't just fall apart because they don't like being near each other!

And 96% of Americans say SUE!

Yeah, a LOT of people go straight to suing, but on this case I think the dentist deserves to be sued. I'd hate to have a dentist that messed up, charged for it, and then caused me to go get something else done to fix it.

This is actually a decent lawsuit so I'm with the 96%.

I'm not American and I'm not saying that OP should sue. I'm just saying that the dentist should be fined or refund OP's money.

Or fix their mistake and the additional damage, free of charge.

I'm gunna tell my 2 year old this every night so he brushes his teeth=D